[GLLUG] your favorite softwares, and distros

[Melson, Paul]

I couldn't find anything to substantiate the claim I am about to make,
but I believe that RedHat 2.0 (which was kernel 1.2.x) came out in
spring of '95 as the 1st official RedHat release.  Prior to that, Marc
Ewing worked on a distro called Mothers' Day Linux, which would've been
available some time in '93-94.  I personally never used it, so I don't
know if it was kernel 0.9x or 1.0.x.  At that time, Slackware was so far
ahead of all of the other Linux distros, people only ran other
distributions out of [morbid] curiosity. :-)

I didn't use RedHat for the first time until 4.1 came out, which was
released in spring of '97, and promptly went back to Slackware. :-)
That was 6 years ago, though, and RedHat has gotten a lot of industry
support and significantly improved their distro - over the last 3 years,
especially.

PaulM



-----Original Message-----
From: Jo Dillon [mailto:jo@groupinfo.com]
Sent: Thursday, February 27, 2003 8:42 PM
To: linux-user@egr.msu.edu
Subject: Re: [GLLUG] your favorite softwares, and distros


On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 06:50:43PM -0500, Yarden Katz wrote:
> Yao-Ying Chien <chieny@pilot.msu.edu> writes:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > My 1st Linux was Redhat 4.0 (1993?), then I haven't done much since

  Hmm, I started using Linux in 1995, with Redhat 3.0.3; I think 4.0
would be 1996 or so wouldn't it?

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	Jo
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